Amanda Craig
The Critic Books Podcast: The Golden Rule
In discussion with novelist Amanda Craig about her latest book
Never trust a publisher
Once Twitter takes against you, they will wash their hands of you, Pontius Pilate-style
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Rehabilitating an Edwardian genius
The sheer scale and diversity of Lutyens’ output is mind-blowing
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
